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The Films of Orson Welles Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)

The Films of Orson Welles By Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)

The Films of Orson Welles by Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)


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This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in both splendid successes and puzzling failures. Robert Garis provides an appreciation and interpretative commentary of his films.

The Films of Orson Welles Summary

The Films of Orson Welles by Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)

This 2004 book offers a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in both splendid successes and puzzling failures. Examining the key and recurring themes of Welles' long and varied career, Robert Garis provides an appreciation and interpretative commentary of his films. At the core of this book are sustained readings of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight.

The Films of Orson Welles Reviews

' excellent valuable contribution to Welles scholarship.' Modernism/Modernity

Table of Contents

1. Career overview; 2. Citizen Kane; 3. The Magnificent Ambersons; 4. The Lady from Shanghai; 5. Touch of Evil; 6. Welles' Shakespeare.

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NPB9780521640145
9780521640145
0521640148
The Films of Orson Welles by Robert Garis (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2004-03-08
200
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